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All About The Moon!
By: Skyler Wilson & Jacob Treat
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Table Of Contents
How formed Composition Size- distance from earth Phases Orbit Effects on the earth Missions to the moon - Time line Unmanned Manned
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How The Moon Was Formed There have been several explanations for the origin of the Moon in the past. They include theories that the Moon was captured by Earth's gravity, it formed alongside Earth, or that it was a lump of Earth that split off due to inertia.
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The Moon’s Composition The moon consists of a crust, a mantle, and a core, much like earth, but in smaller amounts. These layers consist mostly of iron, magnesium, and other metals. mostly rock and metal
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Moons Distance From Earth On average the moon is 380,000 km (235,000 miles) from the Earth, a distance of about 110 times its own diameter.
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The Size Of The Moon The Earth is 12,740 km (7900 miles) across, and the Moon 3474 km (2150 miles) in diameter, for a ratio of 3.7.
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Moon’s Phases
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Moon’s Orbit
The Moon completes its orbit around the Earth in approximately 27.3 days (a sidereal month). The Earth and Moon orbit about their barycentre (common centre of mass), which lies about 4700 km from Earth's centre (about three quarters of the Earth's radius). On average, the Moon is at a distance of about 385000 km from the centre of the Earth, which corresponds to about 60 Earth radii. With a mean orbital velocity of 1.023 km/s, the Moon moves relative to the stars each hour by an amount roughly equal to its angular diameter, or by about 0.5°. The Moon differs from most satellites of other planets in that its orbit is close to the plane of the ecliptic, and not to the Earth's equatorial plane. The lunar orbit plane is inclined to the ecliptic by about 5.1°, whereas the Moon's spin axis is inclined by only 1.5°.
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The Moons Effect On The Earth The gravitational attraction that the Moon exerts on Earth is the cause of tides in the sea. The tidal flow period is synchronized to the Moon's orbit around Earth, but the phase isn't. The tidal bulges on Earth, caused by the Moon's gravity, are carried ahead of the apparent position of the Moon by the Earth's rotation, in part because of the friction of the water as it slides over the ocean bottom and into or out of bays and estuaries. As a result, some of the Earth's rotational momentum is gradually being transferred to the Moon's orbital momentum, resulting in the Moon slowly receding from Earth at the rate of approximately 38 mm per year. At the same time the Earth's rotation is gradually slowing, the Earth's day thus lengthens by about 15 Âľs every year.
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Missions To The Moon
1959 Luna 1 - Jan 2, 1959 - Flyby Pioneer 4 - Mar 3, 1959 - Flyby Luna 2 - Sep 12, 1959 - Impact Luna 3 - Oct 4, 1959 - Probe 1961 Ranger 1 - Aug 23, 1961 - Attempted Test Flight Ranger 2 - Nov 18, 1961 - Attempted Test Flight 1962 Ranger 3 - Jan 26, 1962 - Attempted Impact Ranger 4 - Apr 23, 1962 - Impact Ranger 5 - Oct 18, 1962 - Attempted Impact 1963 Luna 4 - Apr 2, 1963 - Flyby 1964 Ranger 6 - Jan 30, 1964 - Impact Ranger 7 - Jul 28, 1964 - Impact 1965 Ranger 8 - Feb 17, 1965 - Impact Ranger 9 - Mar 21, 1965 - Impact Luna 5 - May 9, 1965 - Impact Luna 6 - Jun 8, 1965 - Attempted Lander Zond 3 - Jul 18, 1965 - Flyby Luna 7 - Oct 4, 1965 - Impact Luna 8 - Dec 3, 1965 - Impact 1966 Luna 9 - Jan 31, 1966 - Lander
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11 Luna 10 - Mar 31, 1966 - Orbiter Surveyor 1 - May 30, 1966 - Lander Lunar Orbiter 1 - Aug 10, 1966 - Orbiter Luna 11 - Aug 24, 1966 - Orbiter Surveyor 2 - Sep 20, 1966 - Attempted Lander Luna 12 - Oct 22, 1966 - Orbiter Lunar Orbiter 2 - Nov 6, 1966 - Orbiter Luna 13 - Dec 21, 1966 - Lander 1967 Lunar Orbiter 3 - Feb 4, 1967 - Orbiter Surveyor 3 - Apr 17, 1967 - Lander Lunar Orbiter 4 - May 8, 1967 - Orbiter Surveyor 4 - Jul 14, 1967 - Attempted Lander Explorer 35 (IMP-E) - Jul 19, 1967 - Orbiter Lunar Orbiter 5 - Aug 1, 1967 - Orbiter Surveyor 5 - Sep 8, 1967 - Lander Surveyor 6 - Nov 7, 1967 - Lander 1968 Surveyor 7 - Jan 7, 1968 - Lander Luna 14 - Apr 7, 1968 - Orbiter Zond 5 - Sep 15, 1968 - Return Probe Zond 6 - Nov 10, 1968 - Return Probe Apollo 8 - Dec 21, 1968 - Crewed Orbiter 1969 Apollo 10 - May 18, 1969 - Orbiter Luna 15 - Jul 13, 1969 - Orbiter Apollo 11 - Jul 16, 1969 - Crewed Landing Zond 7 - Aug 7, 1969 - Return Probe Apollo 12 - Nov 14, 1969 - Crewed Landing 1970 Apollo 13 - Apr 11, 1970 - Crewed Landing (aborted) Luna 16 - Sep 12, 1970 - Sample Return
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12 Zond 8 - Oct 20, 1970 - Return Probe Luna 17 - Nov 10, 1970 - Rover 1971 Apollo 14 - Jan 31, 1971 - Crewed Landing Apollo 15 - Jul 26, 1971 - Crewed Landing Luna 18 - Sep 2, 1971 - Impact Luna 19 - Sep 28, 1971 - Orbiter 1972 Luna 20 - Feb 14, 1972 - Sample Return Apollo 16 - Apr 16, 1972 - Crewed Landing Apollo 17 - Dec 7, 1972 - Crewed Landing 1973 Luna 21 - Jan 8, 1973 - Rover Explorer 49 (RAE-B) - Jun 10, 1973 - Orbiter 1974 Luna 22 - Jun 2, 1974 - Orbiter Luna 23 - Oct 28, 1974 – Lander 1976 Luna 24 - Aug 14, 1976 - Sample Return 1990 Hiten - Jan 24, 1990 - Flyby and Orbiter 1994 Clementine - Jan 25, 1994 - Orbiter 1997 AsiaSat 3/HGS-1 - Dec 24, 1997 - Lunar Flyby 1998 Lunar Prospector - Jan 7, 1998 - Orbiter 2003 SMART 1 - Sep 27, 2003 - Lunar Orbiter 2007 Kaguya (SELENE) - Sep 14, 2007 - Lunar Orbiter Chang'e 1 - Oct 24, 2007 - Lunar Orbiter
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13 2008 Chandrayaan-1 - Oct 22, 2008 - Lunar Orbiter 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter - June 17, 2009 - Lunar Orbiter LCROSS - June 17, 2009 - Lunar Orbiter and Impactor 2010 Chang'e 2 - Oct 1, 2010 - Lunar Orbiter 2011 Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) - Sep 10, 2011 - Lunar Orbiter 2013 Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) - Mar, 2013 - Lunar Orbiter
A moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission on 13 September 1959.[3] The United States's Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon on 20 July 1969.[4] There have been six manned landings (between 1969 and 1972) and numerous unmanned landings.
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